Nobody is slinging mud for taking the site down temporarily. At least, without knowing the details of the attack, I don't think anyone is suggesting that there should have been zero downtime. The mud is being slung by those who don't appreciate a host dropping a client (paid or not) because of a single incident. That shows a complete lack of loyalty to your clients, again, paid or not. RM could have found a more reasonable way to drop pastie, if it really could handle the mix of takedown notices and network disruptions, but they didn't need to do it in the middle of the night with zero notice to the owner. Certainly they could have at least given him some time to migrate his stack and not have to leave all of pastie's users out in the cold --- not that it's such an essential service, but still...